Demo Tool

by on October 19, 2022 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I created an interesting little tool for use in helping to demo games. It has the main ranges, a Mech crit chart and heat scale on one side, and a vehicle crit chart and motive table on the other side. It is printed on a 2 inch by 8 inch card by the Game Crafter, a local company based in Wisconsin. I designed the tool so I could cut it at exactly 6 inches to have a 2 by 6 and a 2 by 2 inch tool with different data on each. One for measuring short range and the other for telling the ranges. Or it can be left as a single tool just for the reference. The example I got worked perfectly and so I bought a bunch more. They arrived this weekend, and now I have more than enough to use them at the next demo. And since they are less than a buck a piece, I can hand them out to players with ease. That’s what I call a win-win. 🙂

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Living on Autopilot

by on October 17, 2022 at 12:01 am
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I’ve been living on autopilot for the last year or so, just going from one task to the next and doing most of it on autopilot. The good thing about having OCD is that my systems have organizational systems to keep them in line, so I can mostly operate by just following previous examples and keep on going on. My higher mind has not needed to be involved a lot, which considering how many times I’ve come home and just sat down in a chair and gone to sleep is a good thing. The suboptimal thing about living on autopilot is that new situations can slip by without a notice. Something like this happened recently, and the “bad idea fairy” did not bonk me upside the head to warn me because I wasn’t thinking. It was both serious and not serious. Nothing truly bad happened, but if I spent time with less honorable people it could have. And it would have been someone else who got hurt. Thank God I surround myself with good people. This last few months would have been so different otherwise.

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Rosalie and Rosalind

by on October 16, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Me, Rosalie, and Rosalind were partners in the tour guide service from basically the moment we were old enough to do the tour guide thing until… until all of that ceased to matter to any of us. Even them getting old enough to realize they liked boys didn’t break up our little working group. We were basically the perfect team, and me and them had this whole act we could do tied up and blind folded if need be. The vacationers loved it, and the tour service kept us together all the way through high school and beyond. Them dating other boys didn’t break up our working group. Even me starting to realize they were girls, and that girls were kinda awesome in a lot of ways I hadn’t thought about before then, failed to break us up. I thank God that those two girls were smart enough to handle me with a deft hand when I got rascally. They never humiliated me, or led me on in any way. They never made me settle with just being friends. Friendship was the goal with them.

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Rosalie and Rosalind

by on October 15, 2022 at 12:01 am
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Rosalie and Rosalind took to water like an Arnami. Not joking. They could do everything but breathe underwater, and they had some of the healthiest lungs I ever imagined on a pair of girls. I’m serious here. They could hold their breath for minutes without even trying. We swam together all over the lakes and rivers of Northern Minnesota, and went to the Arnami towns at the bottoms of most of those bodies of water. It’s a different world down there, with the water all around you, supporting you and keeping gravity at bay, and I can see why the Arnam love it so much. Rosalie and Rosalind loved it too. There were no vacationers down there. No one ogling them or trying to get in their pants. The Arnam truly are Alien in that way, and those two girls loved to go down and just relax with them. And I joined them every chance I got.

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